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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nztoLinux@lemmy.mlAMD vs Nvidia
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    2 days ago

    The nouveau drivers are just barely enough to have a desktop, anything actually needing a GPU will perform very poorly (in my anecdotal experience with 4K). Or, to put it another way, choosing an NVIDIA card is choosing their proprietary drivers.

    So you’re left with AMD (and Intel). The open amdgpu driver is pretty good and is suitable for gaming. Which I do.

    I have no experience with Intel, but I believe their open drivers are pretty good.

    So I recommend AMD.



  • Potentially faster installation

    Particularly when you’re flashing the ISO you downloaded from MS to USB and it doesn’t work unless you use MS’s magic tool. Thus dropping you into the bootstrap paradox.

    Especially because it gets partway through the install before failing to load NVMe drivers complaining there is no installation media to load them from.

    It turns out it’s faster to install Ubuntu and download one of MS’s windows VM’s and use that to download and flash a USB than actually install Windows 11.